Nothing For You Here, Young Man

Translation of: Le jeune homme sans avenir.

About the author

MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS (1939-2021) was the internationally revered author of more than twenty-five books, many of which have been published around the world. In addition to the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, which she won four times, Blais was awarded the Gilles-Corbeil Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Molson Prize, and several Guggenheim Fellowships. Marie-Claire Blais divided her time between Florida and Quebec.

Summary

In the latest installment in her award-winning series, Marie-Claire Blais reintroduces us to Petites Cendres, familiar from other books in the cycle, and lets us into the lives of two other unforgettable characters. She shows us, once again, how creativity and hope and suffering and exclusion intersect.

There is the writer who is stranded in an airport of the South Island, he is held captive because of a delayed flight. And a teenage musician, a former child prodigy living on the streets with his dog, wonders where he will get his next meal. Then there is Petites Cendres, who no longer dances or sings and refuses to get out of bed to attend the coronation of the new Queen of Night.

By superimposing these three worlds, Blais continues her ambitious, compelling exploration of life in contemporary North America

Product details

• Authors: Marie-Claire Blais, Blais Marie-Claire
• Assisted by: Nigel Spencer (Translation), Spencer Nigel (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.2014
• EAN: 9781770893573
• ISBN: 978-1-77089-357-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 226 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Literary; French-Canadian; women writers, women writers; Literary; French-Canadian